Multiple line holder



.Fune 18, 1935. G BEAVERSON 2,005,491

MULTIPLE LINE HOLDER Filed Oct. 4, 1934 INVENTOR Patented June 18, 1935 UNITED S'E'A'i'Efi FATENT OFFEQE 1 Claim.

The invention claimed is that of a device permitting a series of lines, particularly clotheslines, to be strung as hereinafter described and illustrated in the dawing submitted. The device consists of a pair of ropes or cords to which a number of metal hooks are fastened at regular intervals and from which a series of lines are strung. The object of the invention is to provide a device for hanging a number of lines, especially clotheslines, in a room, eliminating the necessity of many unsightly hooks. To accomplish this end a pair of the ropes or cords with hooks attached are suspended across opposite ends of a room, the ends of the ropes or cords being fastened to permanent hooks or eyelets in the walls. From a set of the line holders described and so fastened a clothesline is strung from the end hook of one line holder to the corresponding hook of the other, passing on to the next nook and to the corresponding hook of the opposite line holder and so on until the desired number of lines have been strung. The clothesline slides freely on the hooks and can be tightened by drawing on one end and then making it secure. The invention described makes it necessary to use only four inconspicuous, permanent hooks in the room and permits the device to be unfastened and removed at will.

The inventor has adopted a rope or cord upon which removable hooks are fastened, concluding this to be the best manner of accomplishing the result desired, though the same result can be accomplished through the use of hooks of any design permanently fastened upon either a rope, wire, or chain, but such modification of this device would be merely an equivalent of the invention claimed.

The drawing submitted herewith illustrates on a reduced scale the complete device showing its appearance when in use. The device consists of two ropes l suficiently long to reach between opposite walls of aroom, the ends of which ropes are attached to permanent hooks 2 placed in the walls or framework. On these ropes the desired numher of hooks 3 are fastened in such a manner that they will not slide when in use. Between the two sets of hooks so fastened a clothesline 4 is strung in the manner illustrated.

I claim:

A multiple line holder consisting of two anchorage ropes to which are attached a number of permanent or removable hooks, said ropes eX- tending parallel to and distant from each other in the same plane, the ends of which are fastened to permanent hooks securely placed in the framework or walls of the building where the device is to be used and between which anchorage ropes a line is strung in such a manner as to form a series of parallel lines, this being accomplished by running the line from the end hook on one of said ropes tothe corresponding hook on the opposite rope, then passing to the next closest hook and then back to the corresponding hook on the other rope, and so on until the desired number of lines have been strung substantially as described and illustrated in the attached drawing.

GEORGE BEAVERSON. 

